The proposals of June 2026 represent the most ambitious attempt at economic reform since the 1990s. One hundred and seventy-six transformations and twenty-three thematic axes
Month: June 2026
The memorandum of understanding signed between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States is a complex event with multiple dimensions. A close reading
After a long vote count, Keiko Fujimori won the presidency, on her fourth attempt, by a margin of around 45,000 votes. The dictator’s daughter —
From Himal Southasian A top monk’s alleged rape of a child threatens to unmask the Sri Lankan sangha, but its moral decay is rooted in
Central Hall Westminster was full with around 3,000 people attending an international conference against war on Saturday 20 June. The Stop the War Coalition, established
These six texts share a single concern: how political solidarity gets constructed, narrowed, and sometimes disabled by the frameworks through which societies under pressure are
We can support resistance to Russian imperialism while opposing NATO Intro: I put this argument at a Green Left Zoom discussion on 23 June about
On Sunday, June 21, Colombian voters went to the polls to vote in the second round of the presidential election. That same night, after an
On Sunday, June 14, 2026, pensioners from Shush, Karkheh and Haft-Tappeh, towns in Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province, again gathered outside the local Social Security office,
Can Armenia’s recent elections really be reduced to a contest between a pro-Western Pashinyan and a pro-Russian opposition? To what extent was the outcome driven
From Mina’s Substack When Marjane Satrapi passed away on June 4—tragic, unexpected, and far too soon—the tributes to Persepolis were accompanied by a critique that
Despite renewed efforts to criminalize and erase queerness, LGBTQ Africans continue to challenge the myth that their lives and identities are somehow un-African. As an
The current and very public discourse between Poland and Ukraine over a military unit named after “heroes of the UPA” has produced the diplomatic equivalent
In this conversation, Ralf Ruckus talks to Nandita Sharma, author of Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (2020), about the
Assassination of Semyon Skrepetsky is a threatening message to the entire Russian opposition in Europe Bashkir artist Semyon Skrepetsky was shot dead in Eastern Poland
A note on Angela Davis before we begin. Her contributions to exposing racial and social injustice in the United States are significant and worth stating
A recognizable habit has metastasized across some segments of Western academic discourse and most of the terminally online Marxist-Leninist political culture: rather than examining conflicts
We gather today in London at a moment when Russia’s full‑scale invasion of Ukraine continues to devastate cities, workplaces and communities. Every day brings new
Trilingual Hong Kong newspapers from the 1940s, a patriotic Japanese business man, and Imperial Appropriation of Decolonial Discourse Note: This article was originally written and
Transcript of episode 76 of the weekly El Faro English podcast, Central America in Minutes. In Nicaragua, the U.S. sanctions more than 100 officials after the
From Public Books Durba Mitra, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026), 352 pp. Durba
From MAJIC – Memories, Arts and Social Justice in Central Asia In 2024, Kyrgyzstan adopted amendments to its “child protection law,” restricting the dissemination of
There is a version of Soviet history that circulates in certain corners of the left, passed around like a corrective to Reagan-era Cold War propaganda:
On June 1, Ethiopia held parliamentary elections. Results should come out this week, and Reuters along with many other outlets is predicting a “landslide win”
A delegation of Alliance for Workers’ Liberty members visited Lviv and Kyiv in late May. This followed on from earlier delegations in 2022 and 2023,
Thailand’s military uses its huge Reserve Officer Training Corps program, which enrols 100,000 high school students every year, to instil conservative nationalism and loyalty to
Although the UAE doesn’t occupy territory, it arms militias, controls ports, and launders violence through the language of development. Sudan is paying the price. Empire
This issue of the CASJE Research Digest focuses on the term “Zionism”—a concept that has become increasingly prominent in public discourse across media, politics, and
00:00:00 Webinar series intro 00:01:42 Speaker intro 00:03:36 Democratic backsliding and/in India 00:24:16 Q&A I (political democracy, substantive democracy) 00:30:09 Populist religious nationalism, ethnic democracy and fascist tendencies 01:05:14 Q&A II (Hindu identity, Hindutva, caste, fascism, populism) 01:37:00 Caste, class, the Left and democracy in India
It’s hard to ignore the selective fixation on the Ukrainian far right and ‘Ukrainian nazis’. To be clear, I’m not interested in making excuses for
How do socialists reconcile their opposition to military expenditure (especially increased military expenditure) with support for Ukraine being provided with the weapons it needs to
On Monday, June 1, Colombians woke up with an undeniable moral hangover. We felt sad. And angry. It was the morning after the vote in
After a month of protests and roadblocks in Bolivia, the situation is contradictory and difficult, but there is also an opening that creates the possibility
In December 2022, Sharon Slater, president of an Arizona-based conservative Christian organisation called Family Watch International, signed a memorandum of cooperation with the International Islamic Fiqh
The claim that romanticizing the Soviet Union has nothing to do with Vladimir Putin, modern-day Russia, or the war in Ukraine has become a knee-jerk
From Positions: Politics Is China abolishing the hukou? Since the PRC’s State Council announced a new guideline on public services on May 18, 2026 this question
On the Laziness of Parroting “No War but Class War” There’s nothing radical about flexing theory on people who are being bombed and there’s something